Ebook: The handbook of second language acquisition

The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition presents an integrated discussion of key, and sometimes controversial, issues in second language acquisition research.

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• Discusses the biological and cognitive underpinnings of SLA, mechanisms, processes, and constraints on SLA, the level of ultimate attainment, research methods, and the status of SLA as a cognitive science.
  
• Includes contributions from twenty-seven of the world's leading scholars.
  
• Provides an invaluable resource for all students and scholars of human cognition, including those in linguistics, psychology, applied linguistics, ESL, foreign languages, and cognitive science.

Content:
Chapter 1 The Scope of Inquiry and Goals of SLA (pages 1–16): Catherine J. Doughty and Michael H. Long
Chapter 2 On the Nature of Interlanguage Representation: Universal Grammar in the Second Language (pages 18–42): Lydia White
Chapter 3 The Radical Middle: Nativism without Universal Grammar (pages 43–62): William O'Grady
Chapter 4 Constructions, Chunking, and Connectionism: The Emergence of Second Language Structure (pages 63–103): Nick C. Ellis
Chapter 5 Cognitive Processes in Second Language Learners and Bilinguals: The Development of Lexical and Conceptual Representations (pages 104–129): Judith F. Kroll and Gretchen Sunderman
Chapter 6 Near?Nativeness (pages 130–151): Antonella Sorace
Chapter 7 Language Socialization in SLA (pages 154–177): Karen Ann Watson?Gegeo and Sarah Nielsen
Chapter 8 Social Context (pages 178–223): Jeff Siegel
Chapter 9 Input and Interaction (pages 224–255): Susan M. Gass
Chapter 10 Instructed SLA: Constraints, Compensation, and Enhancement (pages 256–310): Catherine J. Doughty
Chapter 11 Implicit and Explicit Learning (pages 312–348): Robert DeKeyser
Chapter 12 Incidental and Intentional Learning (pages 349–381): Jan H. Hulstijn
Chapter 13 Automaticity and Second Languages (pages 382–408): Norman Segalowitz
Chapter 14 Variation (pages 410–435): Suzanne Romaine
Chapter 15 Cross?Linguistic Influence (pages 436–486): Terence Odlin
Chapter 16 Stabilization and Fossilization in Interlanguage Development (pages 487–535): Michael H. Long
Chapter 17 Maturational Constraints in SLA (pages 538–588): Kenneth Hyltenstam and Niclas Abrahamsson
Chapter 18 Individual Differences in Second Language Learning (pages 589–630): Zoltan Dornyei and Peter Skehan
Chapter 19 Attention and Memory during SLA (pages 631–678): Peter Robinson
Chapter 20 Language Processing Capacity (pages 679–714): Manfred Pienemann
Chapter 21 Defining and Measuring SLA (pages 716–761): John Norris and Lourdes Ortega
Chapter 22 Data Collection in SLA Research (pages 762–828): Craig Chaudron
Chapter 23 SLA Theory: Construction and Assessment (pages 830–865): Kevin R. Gregg
Chapter 24 SLA and Cognitive Science (pages 866–870): Michael H. Long and Catherine J. Doughty